#athletics

Athletics is in my blood. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#blood

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. ↗

— Zola Budd

#always #athletics #background #barefoot #coming

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#baseball #food #life #life-lesson #orange

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. ↗

— Bob Richards

#cut #discipline #going #good #got

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#athletics #available #council #day #every

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. ↗

— Michael East

#athletics #could #found #i #myself

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#being #business #business world #competing #develop

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#basketball #become #blacks #deny #dominant

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#allowed #athletics #audience #engaged #everybody

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. ↗

— Clark Kerr

#alumni #athletics #campus #faculty #find